Dropped case foretold Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting: ‘I’m loaded and ready.’

In this image from video provided by Leslie Bowman, Anderson Lee Aldrich surrenders to police at a home where their mother, Laura Voepel, was renting a room in Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 18, 2021. (Leslie Bowman via AP)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Anderson Lee Aldrich loaded bullets into a Glock pistol and chugged vodka, ominously warning frightened grandparents not to stand in the way of an elaborate plan to stockpile guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb to become “the next mass killer.”

“You guys die today and I’m taking you with me,” they quoted Aldrich as saying. “I’m loaded and ready.”